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In Los Angeles, a regenerative art installation cleans stormwater runoff.
See DetailsLouisville's Green Heart Project conducts a clinical trial in which nature is the drug.
See DetailsAn innovative plan would replace some street parking spaces with environmentally friendly public restrooms — facilities that do not flush or connect to the sewer system. Instead, human waste would be collected and someday possibly composted to add back into the ecosystem as plant fertilizer.
See DetailsTrees can add beauty and serenity to a neighborhood -- but can they also improve the health of its residents? In Kentucky, the University of Louisville ...
See DetailsOakland-based Hyphae Design Laboratory brings us into their lab and the 'Pprophet' installation they created for Bay Area Now 8, YBCA's eighth triennial of Bay Area contemporary art.
See DetailsA colorful vertical garden greets guests at the Bay Meadows Welcome Center, inviting passersby to pause for a moment and enjoy the landscape. The vibrant stretch of greenery flows ...
See DetailsHyphae delivered an integrated multi-prong strategy to maintaining sanitation services to the people of Berkeley. A baseline model includes the management and maintenance of infras ...
See DetailsThe city is conducting a study and holding public meetings to evaluate current conditions and future needs.
See DetailsBlock by Block, San Francisco’s third Living Innovation Zone was a temporary kinetic installation composed of blocks of milled urban timber and illuminated plastic. The elemental f ...
See DetailsHyphae Design Laboratory is working with a national team led by Gresham Smith to develop a master plan for Broadway, one of Louisville’s most important east-west connectors and a c ...
See DetailsCreating the 2.2 acre living roof on the California Academy of Sciences, situated in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, was a major collaborative effort. Acting on behalf of Montere ...
See DetailsTraffic sourced air pollution is a major contributor to human disease, with children and the elderly being most vulnerable to its toxic effects!!
See DetailsThe Belcampo agritourism facility aims to be a flagship model for highly sustainable, fully integrated organic rum, chocolate and coffee production, in which every step of the proc ...
See DetailsHyphae is serving as the civil engineer and landscape architect for two Esalen Projects, first of which is the renovation and remodel of the Main Lodge & Restaurant. The steep clif ...
See DetailsHyphae is also working as the civil engineer and landscape architect for the development of Esalen's 70 unit worker housing complex. With half of worker housing being destroyed by ...
See DetailsLouisville Metro Government’s Office of Sustainability and its partners embarked on an exciting project called Green for Good: to strategically unite interrelated sustainability ef ...
See DetailsHyphae Design Laboratory is working with the University of Louisville’s Envirome Institute, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), National Institute of Health (NIH), Washington University, ...
See DetailsMirasol Mixed Use is a 89-unit Multifamily apartment complex located in Santa Barbara, CA. Hyphae joined the design team, utilizing our interdisciplinary strengths to take on...
See DetailsHyphae provided living wall and recirculating water systems design and engineering for an indoor living wall. Our client shared an interest gaining creating an alcove beside the bu ...
See DetailsBelcampo is a California-based food company that focuses on vertically integrated sustainable food production. Their Ranch, Slaughterhouse and Meat Stores, have launched to wild su ...
See DetailsHyphae Design Lab is the lead architect and landscape architect in designing a site plan for OMSS. Under the approved Master Plan for redevelopment of the former Oakland Army Base ...
See DetailsHyphae Design Laboratory together with The North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District (NOMTL-CBD) has embarked on a campaign to improve access to public bathrooms. The e ...
See DetailsSituated in a single parking space at 357 Ellis St. between Jones St. and Taylor St., the latest PPlanter trial (with the new and improved PPlanter 2.0) ran from July 12th to July ...
See DetailsThe PPlanter works for both men and women. Similar to a parklet, it conveniently takes up a single parking space. The PPlanter system works as follows: a sink is supplied with a hu ...
See DetailsHyphae was asked by GOOD Magazine and the Port of San Francisco to envision a new life for Pier 27 + 29, an awkward shaped triangular pier that juts out beyond all other piers. The ...
See DetailsWe all poop and pee every day and therefore, our discarded excrement is also our great social equalizer. Now, in a time when San Francisco is so economically divided and the world ...
See DetailsWhen most people hear the term public urinal, it’s often accompanied by horrifying images and the recollection of an equally unpleasant smell. In an attempt to change people’s perception of these waste receptacles, California’s Hyphae Design Laboratory developed the PPlanter...
See DetailsSanitation is one of the most important medical advances of the 20th Century, but we take it for granted. Public Sanitation not only makes us healthier, day to day and in the face of pandemics, but it also address a deep need for justice. .
See DetailsThe Riverside Roundabout is a $40 million bridge renovation spanning the LA River between the 5 and 110 freeways. This will be the first roundabout in the city of LA, designed in a ...
See DetailsHyphae Design Laboratory in collaboration with Habitat Horticulture are designing a 5000 s.f. living wall for the new SFMOMA expansion, designed by Snohetta. The living walls will ...
See DetailsHyphae's Waterscape design earned runner-up for SITE Santa Fe's Call for Architects and Designers. Waterscape is a unique commentary on Santa Fe's desert landscape and rail history ...
See DetailsFor a new residence on a very steep site on top of bedrock without infiltration, we were caught between a rock and a hard place, literally! With this difficult situation, we were a ...
See DetailsAn innovative plan would replace some street parking spaces with environmentally friendly public restrooms -- facilities that do not flush or connect to the sewer system.
See DetailsThis past fall, a project started called (Human) Wasteland, which maps reports of human waste throughout the city of San Francisco.
See DetailsSan Francisco considers a plan for cheap public toilets that compost
See DetailsOur founder’s nonprofit, Urban Biofilter, was awarded a Proposition 84 Urban Greening Grant funded by the State of California Strategic Growth Council to develop Adapt Oakland. We ...
See DetailsThe Harmony project is a renovation and adaptive re-use of a historic building in downtown Louisville into a living laboratory; the intent is to create a vibrant urban ecosystem wh ...
See DetailsSometime you have to get your hands messy, or the whole studio. This is how hot wax, a kitchen hand mixer, a suitcase stuffed with leaves, and dried instant noodles help Kentuckians breathe healthier air
See DetailsIt is almost impossible to find a public toilet in the US – and that creates problems. When desperate people pee in doorways and alleys, it offends residents and drives customers away from local businesses.
See DetailsTwo Bunch Palms is a historic hot springs in Southern California. Hyphae was hired to develop a Masterplan to renovate and significantly expand the aging resort and infrastructure...
See DetailsHyphae Design Laboratory provided site planning and civil engineering work for the UC-Berkeley owned Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, a 3,259 acre ecologically protected reserve located eas ...
See DetailsWorking with the project architects, Hyphae designed the grading and stormwater strategies for dealing with both on-site water management as well as a flash flood stormwater manage ...
See DetailsFounding principal of Hyphae, Brent Bucknum, also started a West Oakland based non-profit called Urban Biofilter (UB), which works to advocate, research, and design for a variety...
See DetailsHyphae completed the Master planning and Entitlement phases for the conversion of a San Bernardino Army Base into a 400 unit LEED Platinum affordable housing development. Proposed ...
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